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Saturday, August 16, 2014

The best editorial page you will find:

The best editorial page you will find is easily Investor's Business Daily. IBD prints easy-to read editorials that show the time proven benefits of free markets and Capitalism. A sampling:

Leadership: Dissatisfaction with the president, gloom over the
economy and widespread doubt that the next generation will do as well
as this one give Republicans a good shot at taking back the Senate. But so far the public seems unconvinced a Republican Congress would
be much of an improvement. Voters see the two parties as power-hungry
variations of the same theme: tweedle dee and tweedle dum. Read More At Investor's Business Daily:

Higher Ed: Americans have watched in anguish as the cost of
college has soared out of reach. What they don't know is that a big
reason for rising costs is the surge in federal spending over the past
35 years. Read More At Investor's Business Daily:

Iraq: A new prime minister, the result of pressure from the
strange bedfellows of America and Iran, won't save Iraq. The U.S.
priority must be to save ourselves from the threat of terrorism by
destroying the new Islamic State. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has succumbed at last to what
had become unbearable pressure — from the Obama administration, his
fellow Shiites in Iran and domestically — to give up his duly elected
office. Read More At Investor's Business Daily:

Tax Reform: A new report finds several states that helped
elect President Obama are doing something he won't — implementing
pro-growth tax policies to get their economies moving. Is the White
House paying attention? You wouldn't expect a solidly blue state like Maryland — which hasn't
voted for a Republican presidential candidate since Reagan — to be
cutting taxes for the rich. But in their last legislative session, Maryland lawmakers passed a
plan to raise the estate tax exemption almost fivefold over the next
five years, according to the latest annual "Rich States, Poor States"
report from the American Legislative Exchange Council. New Jersey, too, is considering reforms to its estate tax, which at
up to 16% with a mere $675,000 exemption is particularly harsh. Read More At Investor's Business Daily:

Diplomacy: Great leadership isn't necessarily about
intelligence, expertise or background. It's more about wisdom and
judgment. Based on this, Americans should be very concerned about
Secretary of State John Kerry. As the world melts into chaos and threats to the U.S. homeland
multiply, America's top foreign policy official seems bizarrely, even
dangerously, fixated on ... global warming. In remarks at the East-West Center in Honolulu on Wednesday, Kerry
repeated his claim that climate change is "the biggest challenge ... we
face right now." To which we respond: Can he be serious? Read More At Investor's Business Daily:

Immigration: The states aren't told how many unaccompanied
children are being unloaded on them, when they're coming or where they
are. But the federal government says that they're as entitled to an
education as the children of U.S. citizens. Just in time for the new school year, the Education Department issued
a fact sheet on Monday reminding school systems and their
administrators that they are required to enroll and educate, at
taxpayers' expense, the estimated 69,200 unaccompanied minors who have
flooded across our open southern border, a number some predict will
balloon to 150,000 by year's end. We have referred many times to the magnets that attract illegal
immigrants, and this is just one more — a promise that the children of
Honduras are entitled to an American-paid education. Read More At Investor's Business Daily:

Death Spiral: The Affordable Care Act was a promise to provide
health insurance for all those tens of millions of Americans who
weren't covered. So far, it's not even close to keeping that pledge and
probably never will. The Kaiser Family Foundation, a pro-ObamaCare organization that,
among other activities, keeps up with health care data, says that more
than "47 million nonelderly Americans were uninsured in 2012." There's no broad agreement with the accuracy of that number, though.
The actual figure is unlikely to be that high. Not every one of those 47
million was chronically uninsured — millions go without coverage for
short periods due to job changes, for instance, yet are still counted
among the uncovered. Many others simply make a conscious (and often rational) decision to
not buy insurance, though they can afford it. As many as 8 million of
the "uninsured" use Medicaid, and another estimated 10 million aren't
citizens. But whatever the number is, ObamaCare will fall short of providing —
or even establishing the conditions for — universal coverage. Read More At Investor's Business Daily: